For the fifth time Pravo-300 rating included Maxima Legal team in the list of recommended lawyers
Pravo-300, the key Russian legal ranking, has published individual recommendations of lawyers practising in various areas of law. According to the results of the survey for 2023, personal recognition in 11 areas of law was given to 8 Maxima Legal lawyers who played a leading role in the firm's most highly rated projects for the period from…
19.03.2024
Maxima Legal was shortlisted for RBC St Petersburg Customer eXperience Awards
Maxima Legal's initiative to improve legal literacy of partners of the firm`s Private Wealth practice has been shortlisted for RBC St Petersburg Customer eXperience Awards survey of best clients service practices. HNWI clients are serviced by companies from different sectors, whose expertise overlaps, but not as competing, but potentially…
29.11.2023
Maxim Avrashkov commented for Delovoy Peterburg on Maxima Legal's experience in unblocking assets in Euroclear and shared his vision for the development of this practice
In February 2022, three months before the EU imposed sanctions on the Russian national depository (NSD), the Belgian depository Euroclear suspended any transactions with NSD, which resulted in the "freezing" of Russian investors' securities and funds. However, cases of both unblocking of assets by obtaining individual licences from the Belgian…
30.10.2023
Maxima Legal obtained a licence for securities blocked in EuroClear
In October 2023, Maxima Legal received its first licence from the Belgian Treasury for both cash and securities of a Russian private investor. It should be recalled that earlier favourable decisions were only for funds. In our application to the Belgian regulator on behalf of a Russian client with a Cypriot residence permit and account, we asked…
12.10.2023
Maxima Legal has joined IR Global
Maxima Legal has become an official member of the international association IR Global. The company is an exclusive representative in Russia for Tax Law. IR Global is a multi-disciplinary network of consultants providing legal, accounting and financial services to companies and individuals worldwide. The association includes more than 1,400 members…
01.10.2023
Maxima Legal has received the first positive decisions on unblocking assets in EuroClear
Maxima Legal together with the firm`s European partner has received the first licences from the Belgian Treasury to unblock funds for the European residence permit/ passport and account holders. At the same time, despite the fact that earlier media wrote that applications for licences could be submitted only until 7 January 2023, in reality,…
27.09.2023
Kommersant Publishing House has confirmed Maxima Legal's expertise in 42 nominations of its own legal ranking
Kommersant Publishing House has published the results of its own annual survey of legal business in Russia. Maxima Legal has confirmed its reputation as one of the leading domestic legal advisors by receiving recognition in 42 rating categories. In particular, the ranking included the company in its list of recommended law firms in 15 categories…
05.04.2023
Maxima Legal has increased its presence fivefold in the Forbes Club Legal Ranking, a survey of the best Russian HNWI practitioners
Forbes Russia has presented the results of its own analysis of law firms practicing in the field of private wealth, highlighting Maxima Legal's expertise in 21 areas of legal support. The company was named a leader three times, a leading firm 10 times, and a recommended firm 8 times. In addition, we note that the company was recognised in all 6…
20.12.2022
Maxima Legal has helped first investors join NSD's fight to lift sanctions
A group of owners of financial assets frozen by European securities depositories in connection with the inclusion of National Settlement Depository (NSD) in the EU sanctions lists, working together with Maxima Legal and foreign consultants, has submitted an application to the EU General Court on behalf of an investor to join NSD's claim to…
14.11.2022
Konstantin Boytsov analysed for Forbes the legitimacy of the General Prosecutor's Office claims against one of Russia's largest tea manufacturers
Tea producer Matsestinsky Tea, which leases 538 hectares of land in Sochi's Khostinsky district from the city administration, as well as a number of farmers who received part of that land under an assignment agreement, must vacate the plots within a month. Such a ruling was issued by the Khostinsky district court at the suit of the Prosecutor…
03.11.2022